A new Pike and Fischer report predicts that Americans will spend a third of their television time watching on-demand programs by 2012. The definition of on-demand seems to mean specifically VOD from a cable, telecom or satellite operator, not Internet offerings.
I have to say I’m actually a little surprised.
With anecdotal evidence of [...]
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The recent acquisition of Sling by Echostar certainly suggests that the big guys in the biz value a little technology called place-shifting, and that the little guys still need big pockets to move their technology forward. So with the place-shifting market starting to mature, here’s a look at what has and hasn’t already been [...]
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UPDATE: Motorola has won the WiMax World USA Industry Choice Award for the CPEi 800/850 Series Desktop CPE, a WiMax-ready broadband device for the home.
Ars Technica put up a glowing review last night of Motorola’s mobile WiMax demonstration on the Chicago River. The demo took place on a short cruise during WiMax World where [...]
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Resident expert on switched digital video (SDV), Bruce Bradley, gave a briefing last week to talk about the bandwidth implications of SDV, deployment timelines, and how the technology is likely to evolve. Here are my takeaways from the conversation:
On the bandwidth front, cost models are showing that SDV is the most efficient (read cheap) [...]
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Motorola officially announced today the technology behind recent encoder deals with the launch of the DSR-6000 series of receiver-transcoders. Basically, the new technology can deliver content using either MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 compression – an excellent solution given our varied video-delivery landscape.
Three points of interest:
For content folks this means a new ability to [...]
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There is a never-ending debate about whether the bandwidth crunch is real or just made up by folks as an excuse to raise broadband service prices or sell more equipment. While I can’t speak to service fees, I can address the equipment side of the issue. First ISPs aren’t only providing bandwidth for [...]
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TelecomView, headed up by industry veteran Bob Larribeau, has just come out with a report on “Opportunities in TelcoTV”. The main finding: across all categories, Motorola is the number one company in TelcoTV revenues, with more than twice the revenues of number-two competitor in the space Microsoft.
Naturally, a large amount of this [...]
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ISP Planet has a new report out showing that Time Warner Cable is about to surpass Vonage in digital phone/VoIP subscribers to become number two in the market after number-one Comcast. (Years of Vonage hype has not been enough to insulate the company against both patent woes and the might of the cable industry.) With [...]
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ZDNet has bundled together several interesting CE stats from Forrester. Here are a few of them with some added commentary:
Adoption of digital video recorders (DVRs), will more than triple to be in more than 69 million households by 2012.
It still feels to me like DVRs have had a relatively long adoption cycle, [...]
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Wondering how important the digital “must-carry” issue has been for the cable industry? The popularity of articles on the topic may be an indicator. CTAM SmartBrief (CTAM stands for Cable & Telecommunications Marketing Association) reports that over the last week two of the top three most-read stories were on “must-carry” negotiations between the [...]
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